Extension car-step.



PATENTED MAY 15, 1906. G. G. JOHNSON.

EXTENSION GAR STEP.

APPLIGATION FILED S11E18, 1905.

Arm/M1516 ing the step lowered.

. car-platform, and B the ordinary fixed steps NIED STATES PATENT @FFICE. eUs'rAr e. JOHNSON, or WISHAW, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO 1. Ni RODKEY, or SPANGLER, PENNSYLVANIA.

EXTENSION CAR-STEP.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed eptember 8,1905. Serial No. 277,493.

1'0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAF G. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United. States, residing at VVishaw, in the county of Jefferson and the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Extension Car-Steps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to carsteps, and more particularly to an extension or extensible step by means of which a onequarter step can be added to the three steps ordinarily arranged in. connection with a railway-car platform.

It frequently happens that a car is stopped the horizontal strip F, the upper end of said i central bar being pivotally connected to a lever H, pivoted intermediate its ends to the rear of the fixed steps, the opposite end of said lever being connected to an operating rod or handle which passes upwardly through the end sill of the car-platform and. is provided with ratchet-faced projection I adjacent to its upper end and terminates in an eye or ring 1*, which. provides a suitable hand grip. The upper end of this eye or handle works through the slotted plate K, and the ratchet projections I are adapted to engage in said plate, and. a spring K presses upon the at a point where the lowest step is at a con- Said rod or handle for the purpose of norsiderable elevation above the ground, and. it lnally holding the said projection into enis with the object of providing an additional j gagement with the said plate. This projecstep which can be quickly and easily lowered tion engages the plate when the handle or when desired and as quickly and easily raised rod is forced downwardly and the step C when not in use that I have devised my pres-" raised. In order to disengage the projecent invention; and the invention consists in tions from the plate, the rod or handle is the novel features of construction, combinathrown upwardly, pressing back the spring tion, and arrangement whereby these objects K, and the rod or handle can then be pulled are accomplished. I upwardly, throwing the step C down, and in In the drawings forming part of this specij order to permit this movement of the handle fication, Figure 1 is a perspective view show- I the connection between the rod or handle .ing my extension car-step lowered. Fig. 2 is j and lever is a loose one, as indicated. Guide a similar view showing the same raised. Fig. plates L are attached to each side of the step, 3 is a perspective view showing the under said plates being slotted at L, in which side and also illustrating the operating 1nechguide-pins L work. These guide-plates L anism. Fig. 4 is a sectional view showing the are gradually tapered and work through the step raised. Fig. 5 is a sectional view showguide-loops L, arranged upon the sides of the Fig. 6 is a view illussteps B, and the upper ends of the guidetrating the means for locking the step in a plates are provided with downwardly-projecting stops L, which engage the guideraised position.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates the loops L and limit the downward. movement of the step C.

It will thus be seen that I provide a cheap and simple construction of car-step which can be readily attached to the car-steps now in use and which can be quickly and easily operated to raiseor lower the step, as desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with main steps, of a supextending therefrom.

C designates the extension-step having a metallic portion D connected to the under side of the step, said portion-extending upwardly upon the under side of the steps proper and terminating in box-loops D, which slide upon the bars E, secured at their upper ends to the timbers of the car-platform and at their lower ends to a horizontal strip F, secured upon the under side of the step B. The central angled bar G is connected to the plemental step, guide-bars fixed to the main under side of the step 0, said bar passing upsteps, bars attached to the supplemental wardly through a guide G, arranged upon step and having box-loops, a central bar, an

operating-handle, means Connecting the by the side of the steps and having a stop handle and bar, said handle having ratchet formed at its upper end, and guide-loops on rejections adjacent its upper end, a slotted the step side for said plates.

plate through Which the upper end of the han- GUSTAF G. JOHNSON. dle Works, a spring adapted to hold said Vitnesses: ratchet projections in engagement With the JACOB ZIMMERMAN,

slotted plate, a slotted guide-plate carried N. D. COREY. 

